Dr Luke Johnson, Incoming Fiction Editor

Dr Luke Johnson, Incoming Fiction Editor: Luke Johnson is a writer and academic from Wollongong, NSW. He is the author of two books: the short-collection Ferocious Animals (Recent Work Press, 2021), and Kangaroo Unbound (Puncher & Wattmann, 2025) – a collection of 50-odd poems that take their titles and inspiration from legendary Australian artist Garry Shead’s ‘D.H. Lawrence’ paintings. His poems, stories, essays and criticism have appeared in such places as Griffith Review, HEAT, Island, Southerly, Overland, Westerly, The Lifted Brow, Going Down Swinging, Meniscus, TEXT, Mascara Literary Review, The Age, The Herald Sun, The Conversation and Australian Book Review, and have won or been listed for such prizes as the AAWP Chapter One Prize, the Elizabeth Jolley Award, the Josephine Ulrick Award, and the Katharine Susannah Prichard Award. He is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Wollongong, and incoming fiction editor for Southerly – Australia’s oldest literary journal. For more information, visit www.luke-johnson.com.au.